For a thousand years people have told tales of the mystical dungeon of Dagamoor, the twisting vault that holds the many treasures of Varta, Demon Lord of Thieves, built from bricks stolen from God's own church.
A nightmarish web of tunnels spiced with traps and fiends from a thousand terrible lands and tomb of the demon-thief himself. Varta himself is long thought to be dead, and the monument he built to his life of thieving and treachery is overgrown and wild. Those who brave the many hazards will be rewarded with an untold fortune of stolen goods from every corner of the known universe.
Long thought to be lost, an entrance has been found hidden beneath an overgrown fountain at the center of a long forgotten, ruined town that sits just off the edge of most mainstream maps.
Descend the staircase and test yourself against the deadly Dagamoor, King of Dungeons.
What I have done for myself here:
Dungeon23 is an opportunity to connect with the roots of the TTRPG hobby. It’s an exercise in both creativity and longevity. To best facilitate that I want to give myself an easy prompt- The dungeon-maze of the greatest thief of all time.
By doing this I have given myself
The easiest prompt for a dungeon in the history of dungeon-making.
An excuse (an imperative even) to steal as much as I want from published works because this is NOT something I’m planning to publish myself and in fact I’m looking at it as a way to incorporate pieces of published games that I love and want to fit into a campaign.
A setting that can encompass material from all sorts of genres and settings and fit them all together in a beautifully haphazard collage of below-ground nonsense.
A solid motive for treasure-hunting adventurers (who DOESN’T want to steal from the Demon Lord of Thieves?)
A setting that would obviously be replete with traps, treasure, monsters and all of the other things that a good megadungeon has to offer.
An easy place to insert any ideas I’m thinking about workshopping for publishing myself- this project is a sketchbook, and some pages of a sketchbook turn into paintings and others are shopping lists.